Max Gorbuk
At Stanford, I figure out which startups will take off,
and I built a medical system that saves kids from the wrong vaccines.
Currently at London Business School, Masters in Analytics and Management.
Now building PrepKoi: practice for the language exams migrants take for residence and citizenship in Italy and the Netherlands, with AI marking and every answer explained in their own language.
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Business experience
- Stanford GSB · Venture Capital Initiative
In Prof. Ilya Strebulaev’s group, which studies how startups become unicorns. I proposed the “Soonicorns” study, the headline analysis of the team’s 2026 WEF (Davos) package, and built an AI pipeline that takes a study from a week to ten minutes. - MedAI
A medical decision-support system that plans vaccinations for children on immunosuppressive therapy. It went from 25 clinician interviews to 10 clinics and 100+ pediatricians, and in its first week live it caught an incorrect dose before it reached a child. - ZOZH
A New York personalized-nutrition startup. I sized the U.S. market from 280 surveys and 25 interviews, which set the product roadmap, and modeled the unit economics for the pre-seed raise.
Projects
- PrepKoi — prepkoi.com, practice exams for CILS A2, CILS B1 Cittadinanza, Inburgering A2 and Staatsexamen Nt2 I, with AI marking of speaking and writing and explanations in 18 languages.
- Open source — 100+ merged pull requests in 20+ organizations, in Python, C++ and Rust. Most of them are in ccxt, QuantConnect Lean and QuantLib; others in Apache Arrow and the UK AI Security Institute’s inspect_evals.
- Apps — check out the apps I built on the App Store.